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The United Kingdom does not have freedom of speech. This would impinge on the ability to speak freely on countries outside of their jurisdiction. It is not a good idea. What is acceptable speech in New Zealand for example might not be so acceptable in Australia. I find it to be political grandstanding.

"This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people. We have got to get better at defining where the public interest lies and being clear about it."

After all, Think About The Children and turn off the rest of your brain. That first quoted sentence is the kind of oxymoron that politicans excel at. And, frankly, the idea that "the public interest" overrules free speech, except in extraordinarily narrow cases ("shouting Fire in a crowded theater" or inciting to riot), is both offensive and absurd...at least in the U.S. I'm guessing the odds of Obama's administration treating this seriously are roughly 0%. Hope I'm right.

Well, given mandatory filtering in Australia and this kind of mendacity in the UK, guess I'll stick with the U.S.